Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2

A bit belated, but it was such a pleasure seeing the lab showcase all their excellent hard work at #CNS2026! Go team!! 🚀 (+ guest appearance from @psycheloui.bsky.social ‘s awesome lab)

Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... #neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky

4 select pics from each month of 2025! Thank you friends and family for all your positive energy. Let’s keep sticking together in 2026

We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

🎶 New paper 🚨: Perceiving Creativity in Novel Musical Sequences: An EEG Study. Using a sequencer in the non-traditional Bohlen Pierce Scale, we show that perceived creativity correlates with EEG neural synchronization at the note rate and harmonics, and with sequence-level information metrics

Our next MTS speaker @psycheloui.bsky.social, Prof. of Creativity and Creative Practice at @northeasternu.bsky.social, joins us Mon 10/27 to discuss her recent work on how/why humans across societies learn to love music in "Strange Scales: How Novel Music Reveals the Secrets of the Predictive Brain"

Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks @psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...

New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience

When the faculty “retreat” is on campus and basically a very long faculty meeting, and you’re told there’s food but please “bring a drink”

Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sand

Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...

New book chapter for forthcoming edited volume on subjectivity and improvisation, edited by my cool Italian hosts in Cremona! “Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well!

Thanks to organizers for a great #CNS2025! proud of my labbies for repping that happy intersection of #music & #cognitive #neuroscience #musicscience. Here’s Arun Asthagiri: Synchronized Music & Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment

#CNS2025 | Happening now Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal （here in this context audiovisual） entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Diary of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention. Latest #musicscience in which we analyze journal data to show feasibility of coupling lights in the gamma band with music for mild cognitive impairment doi.org/10.47513/mmd...

I think one thing that the general public doesn’t fully grasp yet is that American science funding was already teetering on the edge before all this started. www.eenews.net/articles/sci... A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out. 1/7

It's a lot. Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic. Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.

Every day brings new horrors

Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.

6 days until the extended deadline of 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 21 to 25 July 2025 www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍

Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert: Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...

A beautiful blogpost about our lab’s #musicscience clinical trial for Alzheimer’s, from the first person perspective of a participant: alzblog.substack.com/p/5-trial

I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for an excellent #psynom24 in NYC! Proud to make it into the Saturday highlights, great writeup here www.psychonomic.org/page/2024Sat...

Hello from #APCAM24 in NYC! This high school student just handled her technical difficulties like a boss! Lots of great #musicscience

Delighted to share that our edited volume, The Science Music Borderlands, won the 2024 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society! Thank you to all who helped on the project.

Thank you to Assal Habibi for an amazing event at USC: Segil Symposium: “Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and Music” keck.usc.edu/calendar/eve...

with an uptick in #musicscience interest on here i thought i’d take the time to introduce myself w a few recent pubs! im a 4th yr phd candidate @ northeastern u interested in music, reward, and development. to start off is a recently in press paper at memory: tinyurl.com/2r6jed9r

this is a hypothesis we flesh out in a recent perspective paper, headed by ⭐️ undergrad student rishi kudaravalli with @psycheloui.bsky.social & juliet davidow. we argue increases in music reward valuation during adol. may support greater music-related memories from this time tinyurl.com/2r8ccs3d

How does background music help sustain attention? Our lab’s multi-method #musicscience collaboration with @brain.fm now out www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Belated #neuromusicviii photos thread #musicscience

an exciting end to #neuromusicviii was receiving word that our (myself, kelsie lopez, @laurelgd.bsky.social, and @psycheloui.bsky.social) Music@Home - Retrospective scale validation paper was accepted at behavior research methods (preprint: tinyurl.com/2h6wajrp)! a short 🧵

Loving everything about Estonia and my sabbatical so far… see you soon #neuromusic #neuroskyence

Feeling unprepared for the grant-writing process? Don't miss our June 5 webinar with @jaredmedina.bsky.social and @psycheloui.bsky.social Register: member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

Do musical anhedonics still feel the groove? Our new #musicscience w/ Peter Benson @nickkathios.bsky.social out this week just in time for Peter’s ugrad graduation. Cool drum breaks, even cooler modeling journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Pre-concert talk at the Boston Symphony Hall on gamma, #musicscience, #neuroskyence, and health!

A big ol’ brain in front of the Psychology Building foregrounds the brain-mind duality?

Had a great time chatting #musicscience with Özge and @nickkathios.bsky.social & Matt S on this podcast #psyscisky

Boston peeps: join us for our happy hour show! Chamber pop songs about life, love, trees, and random everyday stuff youtu.be/NakYL5oK8CU?...

Happy New Year! Here’s a delightful exchange: ▶️ www.facebook.com/reel/1566200...

Today I closed all my browser tabs on all my devices and now 2023 feels properly sent off 🎩🥳

Do musical anhedonics dislike all sounds? Our latest #musicscience w/ @nickkathios.bsky.social & Ani Patel, now out in Cognition: Musical anhedonia, timbre, and the rewards of music listening www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...